How to make a reliable display stand for the Sewing and Quilting necklaces, an update to the Paper Doll stand design
In 2023 I came to proffesh-ness market wise. I love my display and I love the pretty things I make. In going to market I show these with pride and it brings me joy. And so I will continue.
Sewing; some Cuff Top, Barry pants, and French darts in t-shirts. And art life things
I made this frame and that has taken two point five years from start to finish. This is the way I made it
Tranche of recent (mostly) jewellery related images. They’re all so beautiful.
Lots of DIY tutorial in this post! I always thought cuff bracelets didn’t suit me or work well on my arms , but then I tried one that was quite wide and fit quite close, and I have now gone mad for them
This piece has been making itself for three years. This a window into how it goes on. And on
Hello friends. Do you sew? Then this is for you! So Schiaparelli
Its happening again, Christmas, except this one is freaky because I now have a viable business. Freakin out…
Come with me, gentle reader, as we scroll down the page tracking the creative barnstorming of August-September-October. I’ll tell you all about it…
if I concentrate really hard through squinty eyes, I think there’s a case for calling it relief sculpture
Gold powder stencilling. This centuries old technique is godless. YouTube video of failure as a teaching moment here
Servicing the bottomless need the world has for watching YouTube tutorials. But this one is mine!
The artwork I’m making features a fragment of lace, mirrored, laid over/across a painting & extending over the frame
I made a sketch, had an idea, and everything that then follows, documents my search to find it materially, to make it so I could see what it looked like. Took ages
September 2020. Dogs, mainly. Dogs and sewing. Some other stuff but mainly that. Thats how artworking goes sometimes
…So joyous, one of those things born from the new world of Covid Time: straight from the heart and boundary porous.
…aside from that, which really didn’t take very long to do, I’ve been spending entire days, at the end of which, I couldn’t tell you what I had done. For that entire day had just…gone by
It was exactly the kind of theoretical design interrogation to conduct late at night during a global health crisis when everything is in flux and normal is gone and all things feel unsafe. I only wondered why no one had done it before.
This is my Frocktails outfit. I’ve since worn it for a bbq out the back, for going to Woollies, for getting dressed in the morning and walking around and around the neighbourhood and for thats about it. This top is the best…I don’t know why I haven’t thought of sleeping in it yet, but now I have! Consider it done
In the spirit of Frocktails AND Xmas around the corner, here we are: the Spoolettes Tiger T! Available in the Souvenirs Shop
but ITS A DIRECTIONAL PRINT & I hadnt been told
It was quite a good month for art. And for making a Linden top with cuffs from an old Missoni dress; oh my goodness I just cut up oh Missoni oh my goodness me what have I
Hopes and dreams, solid refuges, structural guarantees; in Jungian dream analysis, the house is a symbol of self. Jung, who saw ‘self’ as a treasure, famously likened our true, inner selves to gold.
Sewing the Frances Top by Fibre Mood & the Sulis Hat by Pattern Fantastique and art
Sydney Frocktails: there’s no one better to appreciate our statement outfits! Than other sewists!
I have medium-to-big plans for next year & if experience teaches me one thing, its that all the fucking detail heavy work is set to continue & acceptance is the key to all my problems
Most of November was getting things ready for my Christmas pop-up shop; I worked all days, making and making but even so I didn’t really get there, or not as much there as I would’ve liked to. Mostly because of Being a Woman.
Mirrored, compressed landscape & batik design. Acrylic, pastels, oil varnish, gold mica pigment on canvas.
Diptych, overall dimensions 1110x1820 mm (36x88 inches)
Its taken me a whole month to not get much further along with the diptych. God is sending me opportunities to practice acceptance.
Intense work through August, finishing the big diptych OR SO I THOUGHT
"It is ‘the beautiful sorrow of things’, sunt lacrimae rerum; there are tears in everything, [he] said, not mournfully nor hopelessly but as a paradoxical statement about the beauty of the world”
Diptych 20x36" overall. Oil paint, mica pigment on gold metal leaf on gesso board
This is the Melbourne top. When I saw Iconic Patterns' Instagram post showing this design in beta stage, I was: "Lena. Please let me give you some money so I can buy this pattern"
come the end of the month, at monthly progress posting time, I think oh no I've done NOTHING this month when in fact, I really have
I'm currently engaged in commissioned work for a luxury hotel - at 28 pieces its the biggest commission I've ever know - and I'm not at liberty to share any images of it. So all the showing off I get to do is in that last sentence. However, there is a lull in artwork proceedings at the moment, so here’s a photoshop bonanza of step by step pics following the making of Puppy's new couch step! Time wasting!
I've gilded a lot of surfaces over the decades and lace is one of them, but I've never made a garment with it before.
Much work that I cant share. The commission I'm undertaking is by far the biggest I've ever done, with the most restrictive contract I've ever signed. So I cant share progress pics but let me assure you, I'm artworking long and many days
Various samplings for commissions/proposals; photoshop sketches; fabric print design sketches and...
DREAM REALISED: I've been wanting to try some of my artwork images through digital fabric printing technologies for a long time and now I have and its thrilling!
One of my favorite patterns, this. The Carolyn Pj by Closet Case Files. This is my fourth make, this time a dress I'd long been plotting. PJ for daywear trend still going strong in my house.
I put together a booklet style presentation to accompany the exhibition about the processes that went into creating the works on canvas
The exhibition title refers to the works themselves, which are an interpretation of Perl’s inner landscape; a private space inhabited by her thoughts, dreams, memories and emotions. As a series, the works explore universal themes such as loss, grief, faith, nostalgia and beauty.
1830 x 901mm. Loved working at this scale after all the teeny pieces I've been making for so long. With them my thinking has been that its an already crowded world and theres a helluva lot of art out there, it doesn't need more taking up valuable space
New work. "The body mask; a sculpturally elegant, totemic, vessel-like form. Speaking of the masks that define and protect us. Viewers engage with the work, creating meaning, through their own associations and memories." True or false? You be the judge...
End of year wrap up...well everyone else is doing it, so heres some of MY favorite 2015 pics:
Ok so the only words I got there were "make a Katetop modified from the original pattern". My takeaway was ‘make a top that bears little to no resemblance to the Kate top’….
Gold thread embroidery on painted canvas landscape.
I love this dress. I really do. Its a great dress. I studied DVF's which is all about the column of graphic print plus bare skin (sexy older skin)
Hooray! Week three of wearing a self-made piece of clothing every day and I'm equal parts tired of thinking about what I'll wear every morning & fascinated to find out how this challenge plays out over the next two weeks. I'll need to find some new combinations of my me-mades & work out some new matchy matchies. Interesting. (To me.)
So as far as Christmas DIY's go, this one is acceptably anti-horrid (seriously, what is WITH that red & green?? It's just weird.) and most importantly, cheap. Granny Corner approves of cheap. Also jewellery, GC really, really believes in that.
Time to bring all the bits I've made together: the diorama/gallery style displays and the maquette/mini sculptures. Results!
THIS chapter is about making the jolly little balsa wood sculpture pieces to inhabit my dioramas. And this is a really interesting chapter too.
A lot but not much